In 2001, Portugal took an unorthodox approach to address its drug crisis. Instead of waging a costly war on drugs and targetting users and dealers, it decided to decriminalize all drugs. In this podcast, Director-General João Castel-Branco Goulão of the Service for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD) in Portugal sat down with MIR's Alec Regino to give his insight on the lessons we can take away from Portugal and its drug policies 18 years later.
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What Could Appear by Puddle of Infinity.
Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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João Goulão by Nuno Saraiva is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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